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The Transit of Venus

(1980)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1981 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee)
1980 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and the characters weave in and out of each other's lives, love, death and two slow-burning secrets wait in ambush for them.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"A wonderfully mysterious book ... Both plot and characters are many layered. Unforgettably rich." - Anne Tyler


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